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Published on: August 26, 2011
Autobiographical memory and post-psychotic depression in first episode psychosis
Zaffer Iqbal1, Max Birchwood, David Hemsley
1School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK.
Objectives:
In unipolar depression, the action of early life events has been shown to be linked to a deficit in accessing details of such autobiographical events ('overgeneral memory'). In this study, we test whether a similar deficit can be observed in post-psychotic depression (PPD) in first-episode psychosis.
Method:
A group of 29 patients were followed up during the 12 months after their first onset, and monitored for PPD.
Results:
Of the sample group, 45% developed PPD, which was associated with overgeneral memory (p <.05; effect size = 1.05) and a heightened awareness of the diagnosis.
Conclusions:
Our findings raise the possibility that anomalies of psychosocial development may confer vulnerability to depression in psychosis.
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